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WENDY PARKULO / NEWS TEAM Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum announced yesterday that he plans to run for governor in the 2018 election. The thirty-seven year old publicized his candidacy by releasing a YouTube video entitled “Bring it Home” in which he discusses his plan for Florida’s future. Gillum spoke optimistically stating that, “As governor of…

WENDY PARKULO / NEWS TEAM Although Governor Rick Scott and House Speaker Richard Corcoran both belong to the Republican Party, they are currently locked in a fierce debate regarding government subsidies to the tourism industry. Governor Scott vehemently opposes the defunding of Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida proposed by Corcoran. In Corcoran’s view these subsidies…

THRICIA SAINTIL / NEWS TEAM The Oklahoma House Public Health Committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would require women to get written consent from the father of their child before they can get an abortion—a measure that faces widespread criticism after its author, state Rep. Justin Humphrey, referred to pregnant women as “hosts” and…

THRICIA SAINTIL / NEWS TEAM A Tallahassee woman has filed a civil suit against a local Mexican restaurant after she fell off its donkey statue and fractured her spine. On Aug. 31, 2015 Kimberly Bonn was dining at the El Jalisco Southwood Mexican when she decided to mount the built-to-scale donkey to pose for a…

THRICIA SAINTIL / NEWS TEAM The US justice department urged an appeals court on Tuesday to reinstate President Donald Trump’s travel ban in the interests of national security. The ban limits travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, and it bars the arrival of all refugees into the United States. U.S. District Judge James Robart of Seattle…

WENDY PARKULO / NEWS TEAM Last August, Darlene Horton, the wife of FSU Professor Richard Wagner, was stabbed to death in London the day before the couple’s intended return to the United States.Wagner spent the summer teaching at the FSU London study center. Today nineteen year old Zakaria Bulhan has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Without…

By Adam Wood / Staff Writer Donald Trump enters his second week in office with the lowest approval rating of any newly-minted president in recent history. His first one hundred days, of course, shall consist of him ‘making good’ on the promises he had made on the campaign trail. Among these promises is the colloquially…

THRICHA SAINTIL / NEWS TEAM San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city in the country to sue President Trump’s executive order that directs the federal government to withhold money from so-called sanctuary cities, saying the order was “unconstitutional.” The lawsuit, filed by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera in U.S. District Court in Northern…

WENDY PARKULO / NEWS TEAM President Trump has just announced his pick for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the late Antonin Scalia and his name is Judge Neil Gorsuch from Denver, Colorado. This is not something to be taken lightly because those appointed as Supreme Court Justices serve for life and their decisions…

Over the weekend President Trump issued an Executive Order banning seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States while placing stricter vetting measures are put into place. The seven countries that have been banned for 90 days are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and Libya. Along with banning these countries from entering the United…